Actor Deep Sidhu has stated that the country wide flag become not removed from the flagpole on the red fort and that nobody raised a query over the country's unity and integrity. Reacting to allegations that he instigated the farmers to march in the direction of the red citadel, the actor sought to guard his motion, pronouncing he and his supports did no longer get rid of the national flag. Sidhu stated that he had positioned up the 'Nishan Sahib' as a symbolic protest at the crimson citadel. Hindi News

NEW DELHI: Amid a large outrage over protesters swarming the pink castle and hoisting a spiritual flag in the course of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has reportedly admitted that he changed into present in the course of the incident.

Reacting to allegations that he instigated the farmers to march in the direction of the red fortress, the actor sought to shield his motion, announcing he and his supports did not take away the national flag. Sidhu said that he had placed up the 'Nishan Sahib' as a symbolic protest on the crimson fort. The 'Nishan Sahib' flag, a symbol of Sikh faith, is seen in any respect Gurdwara complexes.

In a video posted on facebook on Tuesday evening, Sidhu claimed it became no longer a planned circulate and that they must now not take delivery of any communal coloration or dubbed as fundamentalists or hardliners. “To symbolically sign in our protest in opposition to the new farm rules, we put up 'Nishan Sahib' and a farmer flag and additionally raised the slogan of Kisan Mazdoor Ekta,” said Sidhu.

The flag represents the united states's ‘team spirit in diversity’, he said even as pointing toward 'Nishan Sahib', the triangular saffron flag with the logo of 'Khanda', a -edged sword, Chakra, a disc, and Kirpans that move each other at the handles.

He said that the national flag became now not eliminated from the flagpole on the red castle and that nobody raised a query over the united states of america's harmony and integrity. chief of the Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), Gurnam Singh Chaduni has accused the Punjabi singer and actor of inciting and misguiding protesters. "He (Deep Sidhu) led them to the crimson fortress. Farmers never desired to visit crimson fort," BKU chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni said.

Leaders throughout the political spectrum additionally condemned the violence and the pink fort incident, with the Congress' Shashi Tharoor saying he supported the farmers' protests from the start however can not condone "lawlessness".
"maximum unlucky. i have supported the farmers' protests from the begin however I can't condone lawlessness. And on #RepublicDay no flag however the sacred tiranga should fly aloft the crimson fort," the previous union minister stated on Twitter, tagging a tweet that carried a video of the incident.

Sidhu, who has been related to the farmers' agitation for the remaining many months, stated "anger flares up" in a mass motion like this while the real rights of human beings are disregarded. “In brand new situation, that anger flared up,” he stated.

Sidhu become an aide of actor Sunny Deol whilst the latter contested from Gurdaspur seat in Punjab all through 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Deol, now a BJP MP, had distanced himself from Sidhu in December remaining yr after he joined the farmers' agitation.

Swaraj Abhyan chief Yogendra Yadav, who is a few of the leaders spearheading the agitation in opposition to the farm laws, said Sidhu were disassociated "from our protest proper from the start".

"whilst he participated in a protest at Shambu border and seeing their activities, the farmer unions had determined to hold them far from our motion," he said.
The Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella frame of forty one farmer unions that is main the protest towards the 3 principal farm legal guidelines, additionally disassociated itself from those who indulged in violence throughout the tractor parade and alleged that a few "delinquent factors" infiltrated their otherwise peaceful motion.

Sidhu, however, stated that Tuesday's incident ought to now not be visible in isolation as they had been holding their protest for the ultimate six to seven months. “And it (modern incident) changed into a continuation of that,” he said. Sidhu said the protesters did now not go to Delhi to harm absolutely everyone or damage public property, nor that they had any weapon.

“We held a peaceful protest with out destroying some thing or causing any harm to the public belongings, we exercised our democratic right peacefully,” he claimed, including, “If we think one individual or a character should do the sort of massive mobilisation of humans, then it'll be wrong.’’

Sidhu turned into summoned with the aid of the national investigation enterprise (NIA) closing week in reference to the Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) case. Wielding sticks and golf equipment and holding the tricolour and union flags, tens of hundreds of farmers atop tractors broke barriers, clashed with police and entered the town from diverse factors to lay siege to the red citadel.

Over eighty police employees were injured in the violence. Farmers, in the main from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, were tenting at several Delhi border points, together with Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur, due to the fact that November 28, demanding a complete repeal of three farm legal guidelines and a legal guarantee on minimal aid rate for their vegetation. Hindi News